<p>I doubt this will be a problem since your high school documents have all 4 of your names and you are getting them to write an explanation.</p>
<p>Do you have a guidance counselor at your HS that helps students with their college apps? Try talking with him/her. They can help you figure thus out and helped us when S accidentally wrote his last name as his first name for one text so he had two test records. The counselor was able to talk with more helpful people than I was. Good luck!</p>
<p>I’m pretty confident you won’t actually have that much trouble getting this straightened out. Both my kids mucked up names/birthdays on the CB records.</p>
<p>My name is totally different though…</p>
<p>I dunno I tried my best </p>
<p>Let’s pray and hope</p>
<p>@mathmom, </p>
<p>How did that go??!</p>
<p>@HImom,</p>
<p>I did talk to my school director like I said and she didn’t sound that alarmed although she did assure me that I won’t be able to attend uni in my country without matching passport and score report names so…</p>
<p>She also said she’ll email them, so I gave her my case number and the lady that am currently contacting from the CB</p>
<p>Also, on a side note, she didn’t sound very experienced when it came to how name changing works with the CB.</p>
<p>She said I may have to pay money, which the CB never mentioned</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry too much about it, 2200andbeyondXD. I have heard of all of the naming practices that you mentioned, so I am pretty sure that there will be someone at CB who is familiar with them also. I am sure that they can get this straightened out.</p>
<p>Really Quant?</p>
<p>What cases did you hear about? How did it end with them?</p>
<p>Really the CB lady made me feel like I am the only moron in this World.</p>
<p>Sorry, I didn’t mean to be misleading, 2200andbeyondXD. I don’t specifically know anyone who changed their name with CB under these circumstances. I just mean that I am aware of the naming practices, so I think there will be someone at CB who is familiar with them, and won’t think anything is suspicious.</p>
<p>Oh yeah </p>
<p>I really do hope so!</p>
<p>2200andbeyondxd,</p>
<p>I honestly don’t think you need to worry. You didn’t do anything illegal so just be honest and make sure you come prepared providing all documents and information that will clear this up. As others have said. It is a simple misunderstanding and an honest mistake.</p>
<p>Also for those who are telling this student to apply to schools that don’t require SATs is a pointless exercise. This student appears to be set in applying to a school that requires the SATs. It’s not a question about whether or not a school is good. Rather, it’s the student’s preference and his/her preference is to apply to school that happen to require SAT scores.</p>
<p>2200, it went fine. It took a phone call and verifying info like birthdays and SS #s.</p>
<p>I really do hope that my school letter would suffice because I don’t have any governmental doc at all!</p>
<p>OP - Have you asked CB to send your scores out to any schools yet? If I were CB I would check to see if any scores have been sent out, if so, I would contact those schools about the name change. Lets hope those schools don’t have an applicant named “Davy Sparrow,” otherwise they’ll need to figure out who is the real Davy Sparrow.</p>
<p>I have asked for the free reports to be sent to some schools and in my Common App and applications, I wrote Davy Jones Jack</p>
<p>and if they asked about any other names I used, I wrote Davy Sparrow </p>
<p>so…</p>
<p>OP’s account speaks volumes about the prevalence of fraud at int’l test locations. The College Board instructions for ID are clear, yet here we go again, OP was still permitted to take the SAT w no proper ID.</p>
<p>No actually I got permitted with my school ID which is a very proper ID</p>
<p>The fact that the ID had a name different from the one I have on my passport and National ID is simply because this is the name I used to use but my official documents that i only issued this year ignored that surname (tha I so foolishly ONLY put on my CB account two years back) and wrote the 1st 4 names</p>
<p>That is where my stupidity resides. </p>
<p>Colleges on my country wouldn’t accept my app unless my name on the CB EXACTLY matches that on my governmental documents</p>
<p>NOw on, fill out your name as Davy Jones Jack Sparrow. Under “nickname”, write the name you used on your SAT registration.</p>
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<p>When you call back, if you’re not comfortable that the rep can help you, then just politely ask to speak to a supervisor. That should get you someone a little more experienced.</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t think you need to be freaking out. Do you think this is the first time someone had an issue with names? No. It isn’t. They have a process for fixing this. Talk to them on Monday, explain what happened, and ask what you need to do. Take notes of what they tell you, and then do it. That’s all.</p>
<p>Why not just take the ACT w your passport name</p>